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The only reasonable commercial license to have on an open source friendly project is the Business Source License which MariaDB created and which eg. Sentry has
by VoxPelli 5y ago
The only reasonable commercial license to have on an open source friendly project is the Business Source License which MariaDB created and which eg. Sentry has adopted as well.
That license will always to resolve to a GPL-compatible license after at most 4 years after release, ensuring that even if the creator goes out of business, the code will always be forkable eventually.
More info: https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/ https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/
- orra 5y agoIndeed. At least BSL licensed software will eventually be FLOSS. But this? The Elastic Licence? Apollo is now indefinitely proprietary software, disingenuously masquerading as open source.
- smichel17 5y agoIt's interesting to me that the BSL is something like, "copyright, with a reasonable term".